Wynns John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

Wynns John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon, Coonawarra, South Australia, 2016 

Grape: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, aged 16 months in French oak (31% new)

Producer Tasting Note:

Colour: Intense red/black with great depth and brightness. Nose: Pure, focused and refined. Beautifully balanced acidity and freshness ensure that this wine will live gracefully for 30 years Palate: Plush and juicy ripe cassis flavours combine with a mocha like creaminess from French oak. Beautifully textured. A fine tannin line frames powerful fruit, providing all the hallmarks of a great John Riddoch Cabernet Sauvignon for the cellar.

One of the greatest wines from Australia. Three reviews below from some of the top wine critics will show you why.. 

Critics' Tasting Notes:

"Deep crimson. Lovely pure blackcurrant elderberry herb garden aromas with hints of espresso/ roasted chestnut notes. Beautiful concentrated wine with blackcurrant elderberry chinotto herb flavours, fine-grained and plentiful yet vigorous tannins, superb mid palate richness and integrated roasted chestnut/ cedar oak notes. Finishes chalky firm with a long inky/ graphite plume. Made for the long haul. Powerfully expressive yet unforced wine with superb vinosity, richness, density and volume. Superb. The fruit derives from the V&A (Victoria & Albert) and Nursery Vineyards, both located on classic terra rossa soils. From a dry, mild to warm growing season. Wait a few years to let it unfold, 2025-2050."

100/100 from Andrew Caillard MW, a reference for Australian wines

"From a tiny fraction (about 1% ) of Wynns` cabernet crush handled with kid gloves in the specialised winery. Densely coloured, its amalgam of cassis and bay leaf is held within a fine web of ripe tannins, the excellent vintage also helping shape a cabernet of the highest class."

98/100 from the Halliday Wine Companion, another reference for Australia

"This is a very impressive and regal cabernet with a rich array of ripe blackcurrants, mulberries and blackberries on offer, as well as a cedary and gently chalky edge. There’s a very rich and powerful core of deep-set fruit, as well as a thread of rich chocolate flavor and a very polished, assertive core of tannin that holds super long. Try from 2022. Screw cap."

95/100 from James Suckling